Re: Unable to backup table when quotation marks used in the name

Le 20/10/2010 05:28, maiesky(at)poczta(dot)onet(dot)pl a écrit :
> I am running pgAdmim 1.12 on WinXP SP3 but this issue was observed in
> previous releases also.
> When trying to do a backup of a table which has quotation marks in its name
> or in schema name then getting error:
> (example1 quotation marks in schema name)
>
> C:\Program Files\pgAdmin III\1.12\pg_dump.exe --host XXX.com --port 5432
> --username XXXX --format plain --data-only --verbose --file "C:\moja.sql"
> --table "TT_settings".moja "TT_dudulu"
> pg_dump: No matching tables were found
> pg_dump: *** aborted because of error
>
> Process returned exit code 1.
>
> or
> (example2 quotation marks in table name)
>
> C:\Program Files\pgAdmin III\1.12\pg_dump.exe --host XXX.com --port 5432
> --username XXXX --format plain --data-only --verbose --file "C:\cwtest2.sql"
> --table n_dms."CFX" "TT_dudulu"
> pg_dump: No matching tables were found
> pg_dump: *** aborted because of error
>
> Process returned exit code 1.
>
> To bypass this problem I can manually run script with added surrounding
> quotation marks around the access path and escaping chars included in the
> name:
> for the first example:
> "\"TT_settings\".moja"
>
> for second example:
> "n_dms.\"CFX\""
>

I added a ticket (http://code.pgadmin.org/trac/ticket/266) to work on
this when we'll have some time. Thanks for your report.

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